Thursday, 6 September 2012

My New Book: Short Stories for Busy Adults

I have a love-hate relationship with short stories. How can they be so short and yet
so difficult to write?

Sometimes it feels like trying to
squeeze a horse into a jam jar.

I’ve started stories and left
them brewing for years before finishing them off.

Other times I fall so deeply into
my fictional world that if you were to interrupt me I’d stare at you blankly
and wonder where I was.

My favourite stories were written
in short bursts when I’ve been gripped by a sense of urgency to get the words
down. I feel like if I don’t write the whole thing in one go I’ll
never be able to finish it.

After all this time writing
short stories it made sense to publish a collection and here is it: